git - Why am I committing a bunch of desktop.ini files despite .gitignore? -

i don't understand happened. did

git add . git commit 

and see list of bunch of desktop.ini files committed.

(i don't understand why previous commits did not of them, , might have changed, that's aside)

so, undid commit

git reset --soft head~1 

added line .gitignore:

./**/desktop.ini 

and did

git add . git commit -m "test" 

still adding bunch of desktop.ini. doing wrong?

your git reset --soft did not reset index: canceled commit, files still in index (i.e. "added"). so, when committed again, got same commit same files.

you wanted to git reset --mixed (or omit --mixed default anyway) reset index (but not working tree).